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According to local Khost officials on Monday, armed men broke into the Independent Election Commission's (IEC) central office around 8:00PM Sunday night and attempted to fill five locked ballot boxes...

Voting in the election is an Islamic obligation and credible and comprehensive explanation on election and voting will be provided to the Afghan people through mosques, religious scholars said on Thur...

Mortar shells fired from Afghanistan hit a border village in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing two civilians, security officials said.Two officials in the country's northwest told AFP that six mo...

In a recent pre-election survey conducted by the firm Assess, Transform and Reach Consulting (ATR), in five provinces, it was found that 79% of respondents intended to vote in the 2014 Presidential el...

Topography: Heavily mountainous, with interspersed small and large forested valleys. The Khost-Gardez Pass connects it to Paktia province in the north.

Climate: Highland, Humid Continental, Semi-arid

DemographicsPopulation Size: 440,000

Ethnicities: Pashtun (majority), Tajik

MiscellaneousBroke off of Paktia province. Khost city, the provincial capital, was the first urban center in Afghanistan to be liberated by the mujahedeen during the Soviet invasion. It was the location of the Camp Chapman attack in 2009, a suicide bombing that occured at an American base in Khost that marked the deadliest attack on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in more than 25 years.